The Five Question Summary revisited
Traditional student evaluations of teaching miss the mark in a number of key ways. Here is a simple, useful tool that might serve as a replacement.
Robert Talbert
Mathematics professor who writes and speaks about math, research and practice on teaching and learning, technology, productivity, and higher education.
Prioritizing participation
How might we incentivize energetically focused participation without assessing or grading it?
Taming the snowball
What happens if we use an alternative grading setup and a student gets stuck on an early topic?
Does alternative grading make cheating more likely?
A helpful meta-analysis of research on academic motivation gives clarity on the relationship between grading setups and academic dishonesty.
The way of subtraction
Most things get better when they get smaller.